We Care

We love God's creation and care about the environment

We are a eco-friendly nature resort with the focus on sustainable tourism. From the very first day, we made sure that Elements would be a benefit and a blessing for the people living in the surrounding villages and the beautiful nature we are nestled in. We make every effort to respect the livelihood activities of the fishermen as kitesurfing in the lagoons has taken over in the last two decades, but the fishermen lived here way before we discovered this beautiful paradise on earth and before kitesurfing became famous in Kalpitiya.

We commit to a “reduce-reuse-recycle-policy” in our resort and avoid plastic wherever possible to protect the environment. Our charcoal filtered water is produced on site and 100% drinkable. You can refill your bottles from the tap in our restaurant.

We use refillable shampoo and shower gel clay containers in all our rooms to reduce the usage of plastic products.

As a team, we come together every morning for beach clean-ups as tons of waste are washed on our shores daily. Collected and on site produced waste gets separated and sent for recycling to a nearby cement company (INSEE Ecocyle in Puttalam) which reuses waste to produce cement. Come join us for our daily beach clean-up at 7 a.m. in front of our beach restaurant!

We focus on empowering people from the close by village by providing them with a training on the job and a long-term employment. As of today, we employ 20 people from Kappalady and the neighboring villages. Through our recently started “Elements-Life” project, we regularly carry out life-skills and sports programs for children and youth from the surrounding village. Furthermore, we support the close by schools whenever they have urgent needs and support under-privileged children in our neighborhood.

We care for people

We focus on empowering people from the close by villages by providing youth with a training on the job and ultimately a long-term employment. As of today, Elements employs around 20 people from Kappalady and the neighboring villages.

We established “Elements-Life”, a social fund in which we invest 10% of our company profit for programs which aim to empower people and "love our neighbor". We regularly carry out value education, awareness and sports programs for children and youth in our neighborhood. Furthermore, we support government schools in our proximity whenever they have urgent needs and we recently started to provide children from ultra-poor families (mainly single-mother households) with a monthly scholarship. By this, we help to provide for their basic needs such as nutritious meals, hygiene, health care and education and ensure that they attend school regularly.

“I started Elements out of a passion for kitesurfing, people and nature. I love being on the water and share it with others. I am amazed by the grace of God and the way he designed life. I believe that we are all here for the reason of living in a relationship with God and to be ambassadors of hope, love, truth and forgiveness. Elements shall be a blessing, a place where we connect with our hearts, immerse into nature, reflect about origin, purpose and destiny and enjoy to just be.”

Marcel Bobay, Founder

together we make Elements "fly"

The Story

In 2004 the Swiss airline pilot Marcel Bobay came to Sri Lanka to fly for the national carrier Sri Lankan Airlines. He thought this would be a short-term undertaking and an intercultural experience in a tropical island, not anticipating what would be to come. Being a passionate kitesurfer, in his free time he started exploring new kitespots in Sri Lanka which he discovered from the flight deck during his flights back and forth to and from Colombo. Kitesurfing was a big part in his life and so he eventually started facilitating mobile kite events for friends and kitesurfers from all over the world in various locations in and around Sri Lanka.

In 2005 it went into a whole other dimension. In prayer, Marcel received the vision to establish a platform at the sea for people not only to live and share their passion for kitesurfing but in addition to connect with the creation, reflect about origin, life, destiny and the cause behind it all.

However, the question was where.

And it was on that one day in January 2006, putting his feet on the warm sandy beach of Kappalady, feeling the strong and smooth winds and the salty spray of the ocean waves on his skin, the warmth of the tropical sun on his back – in this magic moment he chose Kappalady for this vision to materialize – the birth of “Elements”.

5 years of difficulties, planning and construction followed and finally in February 2012, Elements opened with the spectacular event of the first Adams Bridge semi crossing.

and what we are today...

Today Elements is a place for you to relax and re-energize, to live with the rhythm and sounds of nature, reflect about life, meet and mingle with people from around the globe, and may be find answers.

We see us, our team and the existence of Elements as part of a big plan, which goes beyond of what we can see. We invest in others and preserve the environment in the best possible and sustainable way.

We empower the local youth and villagers through guidance and steady employment. We see it as our mission to invest in their children’s future and therefore support local schools through our partner organization Friends Lanka Child Foundation (www.flcf.lk).

We have started and are heading the Kappalady Hotel Organization through which we coordinate the beach and lagoon cleaning. We coordinate the removal of plastic waste and send it to the nearby incineration plant of the cement factory where it is used as alternative fuel, reducing CO2 emission.

We are committed to zero plastic in our hotel trying to facilitate your holiday without producing poisonous plastic waste and therefore reduce waste at the source. However all unavoidable waste is recycled into food waste, compost waste, metal, glass, plastics and burnable waste.

We further minimize the carbon footprint by using solar power for hot water and electricity generation.

We are part of and facilitators of a largescale environmental education program for school children together with Faith Kiteboarding and the local authorities which is to be launched this year in Sri Lanka.

We grow fruit and vegetable in our on-site Elements garden where we use our organic compost. The 650 coconut trees on our land produce more coconuts than we can use ourselves, thus we sell them in the local market.

Our pride and latest achievement are the 2 Sri Lankan bulls (Johan and Walter) they are our ultimate ecological on site work power, replacing diesel tractors and garden machinery.

But first and fore most it is all about you as our guest. Your happy smiles motivate and empower us to continue day by day. Thanks to you, the vision of Elements is alive and keeps living here at Kappalady.

We wish you an unforgettable stay with us!